The article critiques Labour's approach to BBC funding, focusing on the proposed model of 'mutualism', where the BBC would be 'owned' by taxpayers. The author argues that this model is impractical and unhelpful, advocating instead for a shift towards a free core programming model with subscription options for additional content.
Nandy has to start somewhere, but the idea of mutualism is a distraction The oddity of the BBC is that while most people outside the left and right fringes would concede that it is a global asset, there is wide disagreement about its funding and, YouTube and new forms of video content rather than turning regularly to it as the source of information and viewpoint.
Nandy has to start somewhere. But the mutualism idea is a distraction. The model has struggled enough in entities likeThis thinking is more likely to complicate the problem than answer it. For one thing, because the notion that “direct control and ownership the public” is suited to setting the priorities of a broadcaster is bizarre – the only benefit of the idea is to make it harder for a future government to make changes, though they would likely find a way to do that.
Nandy obviously does not believe the licence fee, which funds around two-thirds of the BBC’s outgoings, is sustainable. Evasion is currently at around 11 per cent, which is not drastic – but the bigger headache is that fewer younger licence fee payers are coming on stream to keep the model going.
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